I’m reading Terrorist Assemblages by Jasbir Puar and re-reading IM SO FINE by Khadijah Queen!
Adrenalin by Ghayath Almadhoun. Such a luminous collection of poems.
Poems don’t have to be everything! Poems are not your worth, are not long walks in the evening. They are just poems. Sometimes you can put them away to rest. Sometimes sleep is the poem.
Probably Adrenalin.
Feeling like you have to have a recognizable “style” straight out the bat. Allow yourself the freedom to experiment and play!
Maya Salameh is a poet fellow of the William Male Foundation and a 2016 National Student Poet, America’s highest honor for youth poets. She is the winner of the 2022 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, through which her debut poetry collection, How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave, will be published in October 2022. Her poems have found homes in Poetry Magazine, The Rumpus, AGNI, ANMLY, and Quarterly West, among others. Maya is the author of rooh (Paper Nautilus Press 2020). She is fluent in French and Spanish and a heritage speaker of Arabic.
Find information on her latest book How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave here: https://www.amazon.com/Make-Algorithm-Microwave-Adnan-Poetry/dp/1682262138
